Last month, it was revealed Japanese developer Kairosoft would be releasing its tiny simulation titles Game Dev Story and Hot Springs Story on the Switch eShop. A local eShop listing has now revealed both of these games are due out next week on 11th October and will be available for $12.00 / £8.99 each.

These games will be joined by Dungeon Village - another Kairosoft title releasing on the same day and for the same price. The mobile game was first released in 2012 and requires you to expand a town located in an RPG-inspired world. The aim is to attract heroes and then send them out to fight monsters.

In case you missed the original announcement, Game Dev Story was previously released on mobile in 2010. It allows you build and manage your own video game company as you work your way up from a small start-up studio to an industry giant. In Hot Springs Story - first released in 2011 - you develop a resort while juggling the needs of customers. To gain more wealthy clientele you'll need to impress critics by enhancing your resort and managing staff at the same time.

Kairosoft began life in 1996 and carved a niche in the games market with its micro-sized simulation games. Game Dev Story was one of the first, with an original release on Windows in 1997.

Are you interested in buying any of these games? Have you played these titles previously? Tell us below.

@Heavyarms55 I think you aren't going to have to worry about that, these aren't free to play and the Switch versions are a little pricier than on mobile which leads me to believe they won't have microtransactions. Hopefully. I don't think I'm going to get them though, I played the demo for Dungeon Village and it feels too cheap imo

The early Kairosoft games (which include the three above) don't have microtransactions. They were paid apps that had all functionality available at the start.

Somewhere down the line, Kairosoft played around with several different monetisation models. A few of their games (if memory serves correctly) were free to download but you had to pay to have the full version, kinda like Super Mario Run in a way. Further on from that they went the free-to-play-but-look-here-lots-of-michael-transactions-for-you route for a number of titles.

It goes without saying that the games using the former two monetisation models were more fun (at least for me) while games using that latter had to rely on some form of community competition to entice people to cash in, which in some way impacted the game's fun factor.

All three are excellent little games. I would say Game dev story is actually my least favourite of the three, Dungeon Village (along with Epic Astro story) is probably my favourite of all the Kairosoft games.

When I initially saw the pricing on Switch I was as sceptical as anyone else, But most of these are £4.99 on iOS and mobile pricing is a different beast entirely, It’s easy to compare but I don’t think it’s entirely fair. There is absolutely £8.99 worth of entertainment in these games. I’ve replayed Dungeon Village so many times on iOS I have more than got my money’s worth.

I won’t be picking any of these up, But only because I already own all 3 on mobile.

@Rhaoulos They started on PC though. Game Dev Story was a pc game before being ported to mobile, I think Hot Springs Story was also. They may have found success in the West on mobile but their early stuff was on PC.

The games themselves look really good, especially dungeon village. But I refuse to pay $12 for a port of a $5 cell phone game. I’m looking at the iOS version right now it’s a flat rate of $4.99. I don’t see any references to micro transactions and so I’d much rather pay $5 than $12. Especially for this type of game. Now when this goes on sale I will be on it like a vulture on a meat wagon, I just can’t personally justify that price!

I never played the 3 games but I'm sure they are good. I just hope Kairosoft eventually adds all of their games on the Nintendo Switch. I really would love to see Dream House Days and World Cruise Story